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True prayer is asking God what He wants.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.